Every week, disquiet.com music journalist Marc Weidenbaum feeds his community of hungry sound artists a creative new challenge. In this project, called Disquiet Junto, Marc challenges composers to produce tracks based on an ice cube, or an Instagram photo, or the sound of space plasma hitting the Voyager I. Marc joins me for this episode of Composer Quest to share some of the coolest and most influential sound art pieces. Marc also explains why he believes music as we know it will be totally absent from films in a matter of decades.

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Episode Soundtrack

Thanks so much to all the talented artists who have given me permission to use their music in this episode.

• 0:00 – “Outdoor Public Warning System (San Fransisco, CA)” – Marc Weidenbaum
• 0:34 – “Have Fill” – Ken Mistove
• 1:34 – “Fluctuation 6” – Ellen Fullman
• 6:40 – “Cold Equation” – Dance Robot Dance
• 7:57 – “Sense the Wind” – Documentary by Christine Knowlton and Music by Lee Rosevere
• 8:46 – “A Bursting Yellow Heart Landed in the Collapsible Forest” – Atlastop
• 9:28 – “Faucet Fripp Festival” – Westy Reflector
• 9:58 – “Voyager Captures Sounds of Interstellar Space“
• 10:42 – “Way Out” – Michael Samos
• 11:35 – “Rhythm From Vibrating Dense Plasma” – Justin Buckley
• 11:56 – “Goldfinch@Heliopause” – otolythe
• 12:53 – “Interstellar Space” – Ethan Hein
• 15:30 – “Fluctuation 6” – Ellen Fullman
• 16:09 – “Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada – August 1 2009” – John Kannenberg
• 17:22 – Sound walk in Times Square – Charlie McCarron
• 19:17 – “threesixdove” – Emre Meydan
• 24:16 – “Less Effort” – Kevin T. Springer
• 26:53 – “Apollo 12 – Saturn V Launch” – Charlie McCarron

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